The Sounds of Migration – Data Sonification Experiment

Migration is a central issue of political debates in Europe, esp. in Hungary. We collected more than 40.000 articles on this topic to see how it is described in the online media. We did a “serious” analysis of the data, you can read the first part of it here. However, we think this issue has got a very strong emotional side and we are looking for tools to make it explicit. We think simple time series of the emotional tone of texts is just part of the story. That’s why we’ve been experimenting with data sonification for a while. You can read about our first try here. We know it is far from perfect, but we are at the beginning of our journey in the field of data sonification. This time we chose a different tool, the wavesurfer JavaScript library. We used our original data, but this time we created a six-channel audio file from the time series. Each emotion has its own channel in the wav file and the visualization shows the wave form of each channel. By pressing the play button, a time bar helps you to see the progress of the music, also it helps you to compare the channels. You can find more details on the project site. Have fun and keep in mind, this is just an experiment!

Visualizing Star Wars Movie Scripts

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away data analysts were talking about the upcoming new Star Wars movie. One of them has never seen any episode of the two trilogies before, so they decided to make the movie more accessible to this poor fellow.

Hungarian sentiment dictionaries

You can find our Hungarian sentiment dictionaries on opendata.hu If you'd like to know more about these resources, check out our blog post.

Hungarian Teachers’ Protests: What happened on Facebook?

In the beginning of 2016 Hungarian teachers, students and supporters organized a mass movement to express their strong disagreement over the government's education policy. In Budapest and in other big cities notable demonstrations took place, one on 13 February and the other on 15 March. During these months many posts and comments were published and many opinions were expressed on Facebook. With the help of our Facebook scraper we scraped the posts, comments, likes, reactions and active persons of the two events. After that we created a Shiny dashboard working on this data, aiming to understand the community's Facebook activity and discourse through visualizations.

Anti-roma topics on kuruc.info

From the mid 2000's the number of anti-roma and racist utterances have been increasing in Hungary and this manner of speech has become accepted in the common discourse. Our research focused on the anti-roma topics in the far-right media over this period. Here you can discover the distribution of various topics over time along with the most important events that influenced each one of them.

Facebook scraper

You can find our little Python-based Facebook scraper on github.

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